Should we have a fun medal honoring the summertime lightning bug?
RogerB
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OK. Why do all mint medals have to be serious? How about something fun, frivolous and identified with warm summer evenings in the south and east -- such as the humble firefly (Family: Lampyridae)
Several national parks have summertime lightning bug viewing. One of the best is at Congaree National Park, but even your own backyard can fill with the gentle greens, blues, yellows and reds of these little beetles. Here's a photo taken earlier this evening in the forest behind my house in Virginia. (60-second integrated exposure at F-4, ISO 400.)
Shall we have a firefly medal - maybe with a glowing tail?
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High relief, please!
I just stood on my back deck listening to peepers, bullfrogs and owls and watching the light show literally surrounding me.
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I would like the new firefly (lightening bug) medal to be solar powered, and it's blinking function to be irregular.
Lets's show Palau and the Cook Islands we got game.
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@RogerB...Great picture...Lightning Bugs are cool... Spent many hours as a kid collecting them in jars... Fun to watch on a warm summer night. Cool idea for a coin.....Cheers, RickO
As a kid, my cousin Johnny and I would catch a bunch of lightning bugs, then use scissors to cut off the glowing tails. We'd mash this in a bowl, smear the green glowing stuff on our fingers, and chase the girl cousins around the yard. Those we caught, were left with green streaks on their dresses.
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NO light up not a good idea
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I would put a battery in it and put a button on it that if pressed gives the holder a zap.
Or Canada.
Only visiting the midwest and east has not let me view these little critters. Would love to have them here in the desert. Would be a wonderful addition to our clear dark night skies.
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That's one thing I miss. You guys up north get lighting bugs. Here in Florida we get love bugs.
Sure. Why not? I'm in one of those "lucky" places where we get lightning bugs every year. (Northwest Indiana). It wouldn't be Summer without them for me.
Those little guys are some of the friendliest and well mannered insects around. They don't bark and they don't bite.
Best of all, they twinkle up the night.
Pete
"Those little guys are some of the friendliest and well mannered insects around. They don't bark and they don't bite."
But they sure stink when smushed. (Predators associate the light with bad taste, too. Maybe those "predator" movies should have featured a hero lightning bug....?)
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I grew up in California where we do not have lightning bugs or snow.
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One of the pluses for residing in the Midwest.
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N.E. Ohio here.
'Mine' started their display several days ago.
I have a lot of woods and enjoy sitting out and viewing them.
Sure.. why not.
They glow for quite a while when they splatter on your windshield.
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Any proposed designs out there?
Would this one BEE appropriate?
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The above design, featuring a bee, could be one perspective to start from. Though I am partial to one with a windshield showing glowing blobs and streaks.
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I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this from one of the more "creative" mints.
They should make the wings tiny little solar panels and at night the bug glows.
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I read that they are in decline in many parts of the country. How sad.
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